Thanks Russ and team I'm sure a huge amount of work has gone into this and I imagine you have done the obvious traffic analysis to determine where the most frequently accessed information needs to be. I asked my accessibility expert to have a quick look and a blind user to check it. The latter observed that he didn't find any obvious issues (great! he uses a fairly current Jaws which is the dominant screen reader), but my developer and site manager was more critical: --- begin comments ---- Without going into a full accessibility check; The navigation is a bit all over the place visually. Using keyboard it goes from IETF logo to the other side of the screen for News & Blog, to Contact, skips search, then goes to tools, then goes back to the other side of the screen for About, etc, etc. I couldn’t see how to get into the submenus using only key-strokes. Images don’t seem to have Alt text or Titles. The link colour, Light blue (#1BAEDD), is not WCAG 2.0AA compliant. No breadcrumbs. I could probably find another hundred things but I think the basic message is that it hasn’t been designed with WCAG in mind. Putting the non-compliance to WCAG aside, it’s a pretty standard run of the mill site. I don’t see anything that stands out as needing massive adjustment. Although, the choice of images is pretty boring. ----- end coments --- There are some very good accessible CSS, joomla etc templates around. We have implemented one at accan.org.au and while this is a site for a very different purpose, note the accessibility menu (top right from a desktop, top line from a mobile) that allows resetting to mobile/desktop, night mode, text size and contrast. This is a really useful feature for accessibility and allows people a lot of useful control. Note also all our images have alt tags, and all documents are available in an accessible marked up form. Some of that can be time consuming for humans, but until image recognition goes commodity, that's what is needed. regards Narelle On Sat, Jul 15, 2017 at 7:21 PM, Russ Housley <housley@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I am pleased to report that there has been a lot of progress on the project to revamp of the www.ietf.org website. The updated website will be the “front door” for the IETF, not only for for active IETF participants, but also provides an onramp for potential participants, and helps explain the work of the IETF to people who are not directly involved in developing Internet standards. The complete Scope of Work for the project is available at: > > https://iaoc.ietf.org/documents/IETF-Website-SOW-20140604-Final.pdf > > Based on recent feedback, including the demo table at IETF 98, the initial design and features of the website have been improved in many ways. For example, in response to the feedback provided, there is now a single page that provides links to tools and resources commonly used by active IETF participants. > > The project is now entering the next phase of the website development. The goal for this phase is to gather input more broadly. While there are still a few features to be implemented and some content still needs to be fine tuned, the general organization and the look-and-feel of the website has been implemented based on the initial research and input received to date. Of course, there will be some additional significant work before the site is ready for production; for example, before the website is final, we will implement methods to ensure that well-known URLs continue to work as expected. > > The site is now accessible at: > > https://beta.ietf.org > > Please take a look. We will be tracking issues that need addressing at: > > https://github.com/ietf/www.ietf.org/issues > > Feedback can also be emailed directly to: webmaster@xxxxxxxx > > At IETF 99 in Prague, there will be a table near meeting registration to demonstrate the beta website with “office hours" posted on a sign by the table. Please stop by if you are in Prague! The office hours will be at least: > > Monday, July 17, 08:30-09:30 and 17:15-17:45 > > Tuesday, July 18, 08:30-09:30 > > Wednesday, July 19, 08:30-9:30 > > Friday, July 12, 08:30-9:30 > > Thanks, > Russ Housley > IETF Website Revamp Project Manager -- Narelle narellec@xxxxxxxxx